Norman Spinrad Quotes
What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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I'm probably the most negative person around.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
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Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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I'm really lucky, I have my performing career so I can continue to do personal appearances. Most actors have to do a film. But I thought I would wait until I found something I really liked.A lot of my friends feel that I'm wrong to wait. They say I should have done My Bodyguard, but I don't think so. I think I've been right.
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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.
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What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?
